Reflection

=Reflections:= **Emily Brown**  The actual making of the book for the visually impaired student wasn't too hard. I just had to make this book have more pages. If I were to really make this book I would also make it into a big book. I felt that by removing the background it would help the student focus on the actual text of the book and not just the design. Getting the book onto the wiki proved to be a huge challenge. It ended up taking me at least three hours to get it uploaded correctly. This was my first time to create a powerpoint and save each slide individually as a jpeg. Since my book had so many pages, it was very time consuming to load each slide onto the wiki. I never could figure out how to get the arrows to link correctly, so I just went with plan B. Overall, I would say I learned a lot about using wikis from this experience.

**Margaret Grayburn**  I am very pleased that my group decided to make music the focus of this project. Everything in this project is very usable for me in my music classroom. To score the song, I used a music writing software called musescore. It gave me the opportunity to explore the features of this free download product. I also realized some of its limitations. While it took a long time to use the program, I feel I learned a lot about it that will make using it the next time just a bit easier. The learning activity featured in this project is what we do in a general music classroom. Students with disabilities are mainstreamed into the music classroom, so accommodations and adaptations are a part of the differentiation found in every class. Unless a student is receiving music therapy (not offered in my county), students with disabilities are serviced along side the general population of the school. To make the recording used in this project, I had some of my students perform. It was so much fun seeing them have so much fun making this recording. I'm glad I learned a lot about using Wikis last semester because it really came in handy for this project.I had a great group to work with for this project. We have produced a product that I am proud of. ** Cliff Kicklighter ** My task on this project was to create the book for hearing impaired students. At first, I had no idea how and why anyone would modify a book for a hearing impaired student. After talking to my group members and choosing a topic for the book, I understood the need to have pictures numbers being signed in our counting book. The actual creation of the book was not that challenging to me. One learning experience that I had, was saving the PowerPoint slides as .jpg files. I had no idea that was a possibility. The hardest part of this assignment to me was uploading and formatting the book on the wiki. Our group had some small "road blocks" when it came to uploading all of our slides/files onto the wiki. We overcame those "road blocks" by changing the names of our individual .jpg files when they were uploaded. Overall, I was very proud of my group and our final product. I think our book looks like something that could be published and sold!

** Robin Schirmer ** ** My task was to create the initial book that was geared toward the regular education student without any modifications. Our plan was to create a counting book to the number 10 in which students would count the music instruments that are considered rhythm instruments, the tambourine, triangle, and the maracas. My biggest challenge was coming up with the appropriate design selection, clipart, layout, color scheme, and fonts. Once I was able to get an idea of how I wanted the book to look, it was just a matter of putting it together. In order to make this book available to all students, including students in this particular class, it became necessary for me to upload the book onto our wiki. As a result, I learned that PowerPoint actually allows you to save your one PowerPoint file as a .JPEG Interchange Format which automatically saves each individual slide as its own filename which makes importing individual slides into the wiki much more manageable. Our final result is something that I am quite proud of. Our group worked together seemlessly which made this project quite enjoyable. **